Sunday 5 April 2009

P.S.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

From The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desal

Thanks for the reminder Mare.

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